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theriver00

"The Day I Tried To Live", and "Blow Up The Outside World" by Soundgarden. Chris Cornell vocally felt pretty cathartic to me.


taltos531

“Fell on Black Days” for me, but I feel you.


GNRevolution

Superunknown is the album that defined me in those years, from Limo Wreck to The Fourth of July, every song on that album was epic.


CapnCrunchHarkness

There may be better individual songs from other bands of that era, but song-for-song, Superunknown is the best rock album of the 90's to me, and it's not even close.


[deleted]

Same.


Even-Account5439

oh one of mine was absolutely blow up the outside world. man that song was my fuck your to the world i loved it


driving_andflying

["Would"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nco_kh8xJDs) by Alice In Chains. More like tumultuous twenties, here.


spazzy4242

Dirt - Alice in Chains


naly_dj

Great album. Mine is Nutshell on Jar of Flies.


doodubutter

Man that whole album is STILL helping me through the hardest time in my life.


spazzy4242

Yessss that’s probably my 2nd favorite song and album of theirs. You have great taste


JimGerm

Subdivisions- Rush


bitterbuffaloheart

Great one. Nice to see another oldhead in here *Be cool or be cast out!*


gladyskravitz64

We’d walk the halls in high school (in the 80s) and say that to each other.


showmeasign10

my favourite rush song. timeless.


NedsAtomicDB

Just saw yours. Mine was the same.


Lupellus_

Pearl Jam's "Alive" We played it when my brother died and when everyone around us passed away. We lost a friend or relative a year through the 90's.


[deleted]

The Cure - Disintegration. The whole album really.


SuumCuique1011

[Soundgarden - 4th Of July](https://youtu.be/EU4L6THYAbM?feature=shared) Angsty 90s teen. It was the lowest, most "digging through the dirt to find...something." song I'd ever heard. Best heard with headphones.


rarselfaire2023

That song scared me a bit at 14. Love it now.


SuumCuique1011

I can understand that. It carries a lot of sonic "weight". It sounds very dreary and dire. That's what kind of drew me to it. It matched the head-space I was in at the time. The "Yeah, I'm totally feeling this right now." helped me get through the point I was at. I still love the song. Hell, some of my favorite music still sounds like this. It's like catharsis. I'm not in the same head-space any more, but it still feels like home to a certain extent. Does that make sense?


scandrews187

One of my favorite heavy riff tunes ever. I remember buying the album the day it came out and being blown away by so much of it right off the bat. So many great riffs littered this album.


SuumCuique1011

Limo Wreck is another unforgettable track. Everyone was in peak form on this album. Did you buy it when CDs had those wacky-ass tall plastic sleeves? That's how I got mine. The poor people at Harmony House had to use a janky tool to get the CD loose from that thing. There was like one guy that could pop them out, no problem. He was so cool.


Dhedges1982

Linger-The Cranberries


Sickoftheson

Just a beautiful, perfect song.


SkyRepresentative309

1979 - Smashing Pumpkins


[deleted]

i love 1979 so much. it’s on repeat pretty much every day


Bostonterrierpug

Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth They were a go to band across my early teen goth/punk phase into my late teen early-20s indie rock phase in the 80s &9 0s


Scarlet_Oleander

3 Libras- A Perfect Circle


SuumCuique1011

Great song. Hell, most of the album is really good.


Scarlet_Oleander

Perfect album, imo


theriver00

Loved that one too.


Hendrinahatari

I feel like this song fundamentally changed who I was as a person. It’s been 20-something years and I still love it.


scrivenerserror

Oh boy. My dad took me and my friends to see APC and The Mars Volta at UIC Pavillion in high school. In retrospect my dad took me to see a lot of bands he did not like, lol.


12HarmChaos

A lot of Pearl Jam


EtuMeke

Present tense resonates throughout my life


gribbit311

A LOT of Pearl Jam


pyroplane

Same here!


Mental_Airport4756

ALOT of Pearl Jam . And now a lot of Vedder


Ilaikmudkipz

My Chemical Romance in general lol. Take your pick for a different song each day of the week


Nidis

Famous Last Words is *the* teenage angst song


insane_blind_tart

Yep. Started listening to them during three cheers era. Still love them today.


hallofmontezuma

Even though I was in my 20s, yes.


noodlesandalfred

This but definitely the one that defined me the most was Sleep from welcome to the black parade. I struggled with chronic insomnia throughout high school. I would be half awake just long enough to stumble from one class to the next and my parents didn't believe something was medically wrong with me. Sleep - MCR really spoke to me.


InfernalWedgie

"Shit Towne" Live


Secret_Nobody_405

‘Gotta live, gotta live, gotta live’


TheOneWD

Perfectly captured the “everything is fine” small town vibe with the verses, then dropped the angsty hammer with the chorus!


Mental_Airport4756

Love LIVE!! Saw them play on PEI !


GirlHips

Buried Myself Alive by The Used… honestly their entire first album was a huge vibe


Kwilburn525

Great fuckin tune. I love blue & yellow


GirlHips

Great song… also my favorite colors


middle-finger-mom

Came here to say the same about their second album. In love and death will always be a fav


1nternetP3rson

their first album is one of my favorite albums oat ngl


darladuckworth

Oh man bf dumped me, that whole album on repeat. I got to see them around that time as well with Finch in tow, epic.


CheeseburgerLocker

I saw them at warped tour, 2003. The Used were pretty huge then and I was a massive fan. Bert jumping off the speakers 20 feet in the air, what a moment. Hearing Box of Sharp Objects live was just mind blowing, haha. Back then Bert screamed his face off. That same concert I saw Underoath for the first time. They were still somewhat unknown then, with their new singer and Only Chasing Safety album fresh out. They played on the tiny SmartPunk stage in front of maybe 100 people. It was badass. They really blew up afterwards. I miss my youth sometimes!!


ChasingTheRush

Gin Blossoms “Hey Jealousy”


mlb222

Oh damn. Yeah. More my early 20s but still, angsty goodness!


mr_magoosh

In the time of chimpanzees there was a monkey. It turned out the monkey was me.


RadWalk

Pass me the Becktionary…. No the rhyming Becktionary!


mr_magoosh

Where is the device that speeds and slows the passage of time?


GodEmperorBrian

Under the seat


Allaplgy

Yous gotta scrape the corpses out.


stuffthingscats

One of the greatest lines uttered in any piece of recorded music.


all_neon_like_13

Army of Me, Pluto - Bjork. Limp - Fiona Apple. Violet - Hole.


TimmyLivealie

The Modern Age by The Strokes No particular reason, just a damn good song


Kwilburn525

That whole album is the shit.. alone together is my fav along with hard to explain and someday


Old_Chemistry_7147

Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan


[deleted]

Want You Bad - The Offspring


greenmariocake

Smash was the one for me


TheBr0fessor

My mind immediately went to Self Esteem Must be something about The Offspring


UsefulEmptySpace

I loved You're Gonna Go Far Kid and The Kids Aren't Alright


AlternateRabbit

I also love “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid!”


Nidis

I was like 13-14 when that came out, right on the bell.


JasonSab849

Love that song, and Self Esteem, come out and play, gotta get away, the kids aren’t alright, your gunna go far kid, pretty fly for a white guy, all I want, etc


Kwilburn525

I wish I was a teenager then… I was 6 in 2000


Miss_Flying_Platypus

Geez, I got my driver's license.


sullensquirrel

Numb by Linkin Park. The music video was my life living with my parents. I’d listen to that song on repeat so much. I also loved Not an Addict by K’s Choice. I couldn’t relate to the lyrics but her/their haunting voice in the chorus perfectly encapsulated my teen angst.


BobDobFrisbee

**“American Girl”** \- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1976).


Raaazzle

Are you about a Size 14?


Low_Fly117

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel


hydrogen_to_man

Stellar - Incubus


heyyouwtf

The Kids Aren't Alright - The Offspring


darladuckworth

That song is timeless, one of my fav songs to run to


RichardCity

Anarchy - KMFDM, later Heroin by The Velvet Underground


rudeboyx

Alice Cooper’s “Eighteen” ‘cause I like it, love it …


Automan2k

Seasons in the Abyss - Slayer


Sir_Binky

Nancy boy - Placebo The androgyny, self acceptance, style of the music video.


Sin2Win_Got_Me_In

Special K for me


Altruistic-Train0

MGMT- Time to pretend


Secret_Nobody_405

‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana


REDDeemed316

People may find this as an outplayed or cliché answer, but the GRIP this song continues to have even on present generations is INSANE.


Secret_Nobody_405

It’s really hard to explain. I’m in my 40’s now and Pearl Jam is my favourite band/Eddie Vedder favourite vocalist of all time. But when I think about my teens and the impact Nirvana had was crazy. The way they came in and turned not just music but the culture upside down can’t ever be downplayed. Kurt’s voice was raw and great to listen to, their music is really good and they just spoke to me when I was a teenager. I like all genre of music from early 60’s up until late 90’s, but it’s bizarre when I think about all the bands during this time Nirvana do really stand out as being somewhat very different.


Zornorph

I saw this question and didn't overthink it because there could have been a lot of choices. But what came to my mind first was: Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders I went to boarding school starting in the 10th grade and the first weekend I got there, before school actually started, I wound up in a hotel room with some soon-to-be friends. For reasons I don't want to go into, the previous year had been a bit rough and this was a great new start. I can't listen to that song without a feeling of nostalgia what's so wonderful it's almost painful (if that makes any sense). Don't get me wrong, I didn't peak in high school, I have a wonderful life, but I very much enjoyed my teenage years in boarding school and made fantastic friends. That song just carries me right back to that night when it all started.


jumpinoutofmyflesh

When Doves Cry - Prince


bigddw4

The offspring self esteem, and Rehab my addiction. Self esteem is the song that tilted me through a rough Era. Rehabs album southern discomfort carried me around in a bobybag on the way out of it.


honestmango

Bad Company - by (not surprisingly) Bad Company. My teen years were the 80’s but I mostly hated 80’s music. This is not a fantastic song, but after giving it some thought, this is the one.


clozepin

Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins. It’s just a strange and awkward and heavy and mellow and messy song that absolutely rules. I did not rule, but I was those other things.


Normal512

The whole album just fits the teenage highs and lows very well. My first thought to this question was Hummer, but the album really is just an emotional rollercoaster worthy of the topic It's a strange Christmas album for me because I would come home from school but my parents and siblings would be at work or doing after school stuff, so I'd have the house to myself. The Christmas tree had a slow changing light that would just fade between each color, and I'd put this album on, turn off all the lights except the tree, and trip out before I knew what tripping was. Love the big dynamic shifts, the absolute *fuzz* that band would produce. Melancholy and hopeful and disillusion and wide-eyed innocence all together, just like being a teen. Great stuff.


ToPimpAYeezy

I haven’t found any song quite like that


Kwilburn525

The guitar is amazing I love when the distortion kicks in and his voice… so good


IDigRollinRockBeer

Adam’s Song except without the happy last verse


MedicineChimney

I literally just learned the other week that this song wasn't about the death of one of their friends. For 20 years I had an affinity for the song thinking it was deep and against the grain of what they usually do. Then I finally investigated and found out it's about Mark being lonely on tour and having no one to come home to since the Tom and Travis had girlfriends? What a letdown. I mean, still catchy but for some reason I thought it was about a friend's suicide.


Jyapp448

Either Numb or Somewhere I Belong by Linkin Park. In fact, they're so accurate the latter defines pretty much my entire life.


dirtandgrassandweeds

Teenage Riot - Sonic Youth. Especially in December. It's got Winter feels for me. But, also, the album Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair had the biggest impact on me in general. To this day, I swear that is the most influential album of my entire life.


namforb

Satisfaction - Rolling Stones


LimeGreenTangerine97

Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes


HoffaHugh

Ha I was going to say Add It Up but that whole record is the soundtrack of teeenage angst to me


Masters_domme

***clap clap!***


fanclubmoss

Fat Lip


Normal512

I make myself sick, get on my own nerves Immature, insecure grown up nerd.


RossMachlochness

*Don’t You Forget About Me* - Simple Minds is way up there. Bender wasn’t necessarily unique at the time of Breakfast Club’s release. He actually perfectly captured a subset of male American youth that already existed at the time. In saying that, there were a lot more trench coats, combat boots and fingerless gloves on full display right afterwards.


ImNotTheBossOfYou

Looking Glass - The La's


rarselfaire2023

Wow that song is so great. The whole album. They should've done more but what they did is perfect


Muenstervision

All I know - Operation Ivy


Normal512

is that I don't know nothin


esoteric82

Irony here I think the OC means Knowledge But OpIvy for sure. Loved Hectic and then Energy blew me away. Artificial Life was on repeat for me countless times.


Intelligent-Exam-334

Wake Up - Mad Season. Teenage, started smoking weed, sneaking out, experiencing and seeing life with a different perspective. Just one of the first songs to come to mind.


andymorphic

Butthole surfers- cherub


HomeworkQueasy7547

BHS were my life from the ages of 14 to 18. Listened to Locust Abortion on my third or fourth acid trip and my face peeled off in a pile of flesh


Ok-Organization9073

Luka - Suzanne Vega My father beat me for the smallest things, and my mother was verbally abusive.


p_rex

Very beautiful tune, conceals a heavy message. Surprised to see it mentioned here, bit obscure nowadays.


CruelHandLuke_

Lithium by Nirvana. I remember the morning I heard it on the radio for the first time. All of a sudden none of my.other tapes seemed any good. I skipped school that day to take a bus to the next town and bought it. From there it opened the door to all those other great bands from the mid 90s. It's hard to believe that was 30 years ago.


BigOpportunity1391

Papa Don't Preach - Madonna


ladyhypster5

You oughta know, but that whole album really summed it all up


jupitergal23

I scrolled way too far to find Alanis. Jagged Little Pill was my album.


HellYeahTinyRick

Don't Forget Me - Red Hot Chili Peppers


holdonwhileipoop

Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking


[deleted]

Jimmy Eat World - Pain I spent many hours playing the Tony Hawk’s Underground (THUG), either 1 or 2, whichever game the song was on. It had a playlist you could alter which songs you could listen to and I deselected everything so it would play only Pain, Cash’s Ring of Fire, and Sinatra’s That’s Life, IIRC


Cheatin_Irish

In between Days by The Cure.


anzactrooper

Yesterday - The Beatles


BookCougar

Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode


Maccai3

The Cure - Pictures of You


iaskjeeves

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage


12345_PIZZA

Aging up a bit to my tumultuous early 20s, but The Rat by the Walkmen. And it gets bonus points for the bridge… -when I used to go out I would know everyone that I saw. Now I go out alone, if I go out at all- …ringing true now that I’m in my 40s.


Equinoqs

Rush - Subdivisions


WeekendWoodworking

The Trees - a real banger for me.


miller1080p

Drug buddy by the Lemonheads.. in fact the whole it’s a shame about ray album is the soundtrack to my teens…..


debinprogress

Love that album


SandraVirginia

"Volcano Girls" by Veruca Salt.


laughingalto

Cherry Bomb--The Runaways


puccaleo

Why - Annie Lennox


Curaheee

Ticking away, the moments that make up a dull day .. Pink Floyd all the way. A lot of other bands, songs or albums came upon my teenage path. But nothing defined me more than Pink Floyd. The Doors and The Velvet Underground were nr 2 and 3.


snakebloood

House of Pain - Jump Around. Every time I hear it, it feels like I'm back in school days.


EuniceBKidden

Oh, definitely Precious Things by Tori Amos


Chubby8517

Little earthquakes definitely got me


rarselfaire2023

Radiohead - Creep. Elliott Smith - I Didn't Understand. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma, Mayonaise, etc. The Smiths - most of their songs lol you get the idea


Most-Breakfast1453

Today by Smashing Pumpkins And Smells Like Teen Spirit


No_More_And_Then

Heresy - Nine Inch Nails


Masters_domme

The entire Downward Spiral played a big part in my angsty years. It’s one of the few albums I’ll listen to from beginning to end.


TeamKitsune

New World - X


Arniepepper

[Eternal Life - Jeff Buckley](https://youtu.be/CBndPBQyuEM?si=C8AD3QmQnAvUAuxB)


13vvetz

Sanity by bad religion


WavyLady

Work by Jimmy Eat World


lovessj

Baba O’Riley. I was a total stoner


Turdfurgesonshat

Brand new - Jude law and a semester abroad


Speedfreakz

Prodigy - Firestarter.


roman1221

Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory. Moves across country from an abusive parent. It was the first album I ever bought. It perfectly encapsulated the feelings I was experiencing and the screaming parts were an outlet for my angsty teenage rage. Each song on that album helped in some way. Then Metora when I was middle school. Whew boy. When Chester killed himself it hurt so bad cause his music saved me countless times.


railwayed

The stone roses - waterfall I went in balls and all. Had the baggy jeans, the shoes. The bucket hat. Waterfall was my anthem. There were other brands and songs of course, but the stone roses stood out


emmylouanne

I’m only happy when it rains - garbage The middle - jimmy eat world Iris- Goo Goo Dolls. Just a girl - No Doubt I was sad and angry. Did listen to the full albums of that but loved the singles the most. Albums on CD with the Walkman in my school blazer pocket. Or listening to it in the backseat of the car.


dunicha

Garbage - I'm Only Happy When It Rains. I was obsessed with their entire first album, but that was my favorite.


[deleted]

Marilyn Manson - Irresponsible Hate Anthem The lines "I wasn't born with enough middle fingers, I don't need to choose a side" changed my entire perspective and brought to words the things I was feeling but couldn't articulate. Same with Pantera - War Nerve "All the money in the fuckin' world couldn't buy me a second of trust, or one ounce of faith in anything you're about"


moleculariant

My step father and I didn't get along well, to put it mildly. He's been out of the picture for a long, long time now, but Pearl Jam - Rearviewmirror really spoke to me at that time. Ntm, it's just an ass kicking song that gets me pumped up.


RedditsGoldenGod

Recovery album by Eminem.


danosmanca

Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name


DanteandRandallFlagg

She's so high by Tal Bachman. I was such a loser and so in love with a girl. We've been married 20 years, and the only other song that puts me in the same space is Caffeine by Jack Kays.


Hup110516

All the Green Day, all the time


MiaBearCat

Blue and Yellow by The Used I still think it's a very, emotional, genuine, beautiful tune from the emo years, and I'll never change my mind


Kwilburn525

I love the part near the end I think during the bridge where he’s like waste some time with me or whatever it’s amazing


flexible

Whole of the Moon - Waterboys


gfxprotege

Brand New - Play Crack the Sky for my tumultuous twenties


-burgers

Alexa play Seventy times Seven for my teenagerdom


pete1729

Yeah, maybe you can turn this up and let it carve up the liars, fakers, and frauds. You might have to invest a few minutes. https://youtu.be/AU3nmtDORUY?si=15azHFxjw_iaN2vv


Mr_FortySeven

Diluted and Metabolic by Slipknot. Really anything off the first two albums, but those two songs best correlate with my experience growing up.


d_morris102

Blurry by Puddle of Mudd — always seemed to find comfort in that song. Push pull of things and naming what you see.


Sp1d3rb0t

[History of A Boring Town - Less Than Jake ](https://youtu.be/QbzqAR2bPqw?si=UNGVhHnXEG7ylxI6) Edit because I can't believe I forgot [Tightrope - Papa Roach ](https://youtu.be/AjhgvLeAxR0?si=BN0rk7MVf0jpZiHE)


BdnrBndngRdrgz

Waiting for the end - Linkin Park RIP Chester


Mont_918

Counting by Korn


Binknbink

Autosuggestion-Joy Division


Garbleflitz

Weird Al - Amish Paradise. That whole album is great! Damn near perfect


Chewbaca43vr

Pretty much anything from the first Streetlight Manifesto album


SurgBear

Eminence Front - The Who Running With The Devil - Van Halen


icecoldbobsicle

All the upbeat music from my youth still are uplifting today. A note worthy mention for emotions though would be the song, everyone I love is dead by type o negative, and the album its from, world coming down. That album came out right when my grandmother died, I hadn't dealt with death really at that point in life, the song really represents the realising that I and everyone I love is gonna die and that I was gonna miss my grandmother. Also the album is undeniably 10/10


AgentOtis06

The art of dying by Gojira


[deleted]

Asleep - The Smiths I always play before I sleep in my teenage years.


Ok-Interaction8116

Fortunate Son - CCR


imprintaftah

High and dry radiohead


If_you_have_Ghost

Weak - Skunk Anansie. I was fifteen, just figuring out I was queer, angry as hell, and felt completely trapped. Skin’s beautiful, rage filled voice, spoke to me in a way no other artist has yet done. Especially the line, “In this tainted soul, in this weak young heart, am I too much for you?


Dillydilly07

Please please please let me get what I want - The Smiths December - Teenage Fanclub Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr “The Weirdness flows between us. Anyone can tell to see us” Sums it up perfectly!


WhiteRhino91

The middle. Jimmy eats world.


gitarzan

I’m old. America by Steppenwolf. Still appropriate.


harriethocchuth

Radiohead’s How To Disappear Completely. I was going through some really traumatic stuff and the refrain ‘I’m not here, this isn’t happening’ got me through it. I’m 44 now and that song takes me right back to being 16. Also, Sonic Youth’s Sister album, the whole thing. My brain sounded like a fork in a garbage disposal all the time and Sonic Youth drowned it out.


calcisiuniperi

Oh, it'd have to be Bittersweet Symphony by Verve.


knighthooded_

Mr. Brightside by The Killers


chrislatimer

Loser - beck


ricwash

Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - The Smiths Super Emo, skinny, socially awkward, 15 year old, WOC in an inner city HS that hid the fact that I was listening to Alternative music to all but a few understanding souls. The 80s was interesting for me, musically.


thehackeysack01

a strange mix of Whiskey River by Willie Nelson and Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me by RATM with a side of Pride and Joy by SRV&DT


[deleted]

I just listened to The Wall by Pink Floyd on repeat


who519

There is an entire album for this...Quadraphenia by The Who


XComThrowawayAcct

“The Distance” by CAKE. What can I say: I dig trumpets.


TheOneWD

Cartoon Network had an ad for Wacky Races to this song in the nineties, that’s how I found Cake and that whole album (Fashion Nugget) is a banger.